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One Track Mind: Ethan Keller "Rock and Rock Will Save Your Soul" (2010)
By PicoWe've used this space for bringing telling the world about the recorded accomplishments of artists both popular and obscure, and for us, at least, the talented ones who haven't emerged yet are usually the ones that are most fun to write about. With those types, there's a greater chance you're telling the story ...
Brandon Wright - Boiling Point (2010)
By PicoFresh, new talent worth listening to is often hard to spot. Good thing the folks at jazz label Posi-Tone Records specialize in bringing to our attention promising young talent who will keep the flame of jazz going for another generation. Their issuance yesterday of the first album by saxophonist Brandon Wright is the ...
Luis Bonilla, "I Talking Now!" (2009)
By NICK DERISO Luis Bonilla's “I Talking Now" (NJCO/Planet Arts), from the first bristling blast of trombone on the title track, is dashing down a busy city street. It's difficult to tell, at first, if he's running away from or toward something. Whatever the apprehensions, you are quickly surrounded by all of the nervy ...
One Track Mind: Jacky Terrasson "Beat It/Body and Soul" (2010)
By PicoHe looks like a young Keith Jarrett, even hums along to his piano lines a little like Jarrett, but Jacky Terrasson is defying straight comparisons to anybody. This 1993 winner of the Thelonious Monk competition can conjure the big, train-like sound of McCoy Tyner, the cerebral presence of Brad Mehldau or the spiritual ...
Fred Anderson - 21st Century Chase (2009) (CD/DVD)
By Pico Birthday parties are almost always such fun events and nowadays, they all get captured on video. When someone marks their eightieth birthday, that's a real cause for celebration. And when the birthday boy celebrates it by ripping it up making some great music, that's just icing on the birthday cake. Delmark Records, ...
Son Volt, "American Central Dust" (2009)
By NICK DERISO Introspective, but brimming with a raw-boned optimism, “American Central Dust" finds a focused Jay Farrar asking questions -- and being OK when he doesn't always get them. That confidence of purpose, despite the unease of our fast-moving, recession-torn dynamic, seems to come from getting back to a stripped-down musical approach that ...
Steve Reid: 1944-2010
On Monday night, drumming great Steve Reid died at the age of sixty-six after a battle with cancer. He leaves behind a legacy that's explicitly known by few but surely felt by many. A couple of years ago we profiled what is sadly now his last record released in his lifetime, the superb Daxaar, the result ...
Karl Seglem - Norskjazz.No (2010)
By PicoJan Gabarek. There, I had to get that out of way right off. A Norwegian saxophone player who skillfully blends jazz with folk music of his homeland...who else would come to mind so quickly? Probably no one. But to be fair to tenor saxophonist Karl Seglem, he's worked hard to build his own ...
Erik Telford - Kinetic (2010)
By Pico We all know that Austin, TX is a hotbed for music, with so many artists located there to take advantage of its vibrant scene. Normally when we think of Austin music, blues-rock, roots, folk and singer-songwriter acts come to mind, like The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Eric Johnson, Monte Montgomery, Marcia Ball and James McMurtry, just ...
Deep Cuts: Jackson Browne "Here Come Those Tears Again" (1975)
By PicoRock stars whose dad jammed with Django Reinhardt when said rock star was an infant, and dated Nico not long after after high school deserve my eternal respect and admiration, but as far as I know, only Jackson Browne falls into that category. It was only years later when he begun to make ...
